{"id":6595,"date":"2016-03-03T07:07:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2016-03-03T07:07:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:07:21","slug":"esd-into-the-sdgs-doesnt-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/03\/03\/esd-into-the-sdgs-doesnt-go\/","title":{"rendered":"ESD into the SDGs doesn't go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear me! \u00a0I hear that UNESCO is\u00a0planning to develop a \"guiding framework on the interlinkages between the SDGs and specific ESD-related skills\" so that\u00a0education policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators across the world can do what they usually do with such meretricious UNESCO bumph \u2013 that is, ignore it.<\/p>\n<p>Given that such ESD-related skills are just a motley grab-bag of half-baked ideas, <em>ignoring<\/em>\u00a0will be the rational thing to do. \u00a0You think I am, perhaps, too harsh? \u00a0If so, take note that \"critical thinking\" is the ESD skill that UNESCO\u00a0first thought of, and recall that David Orr said (more or less) that it was things like critical thinking that got us into this mess.<\/p>\n<p>I think this\u00a0needs a German academic to do it\u00a0justice \u2013 someone simpatico and systematic who takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bne-portal.de\/fileadmin\/unesco\/de\/Downloads\/Dekade_Publikationen_international\/20140714_Flyer_Kompetenzen.pdf\">Gestaltungskompetenz<\/a>\u00a0seriously. \u00a0I know just the person ...<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear me! \u00a0I hear that UNESCO is\u00a0planning to develop a \"guiding framework on the interlinkages between the SDGs and specific ESD-related skills\" so that\u00a0education policy-makers, curriculum developers and educators across the world can do what they usually do with such...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}